1.

An Nd:YAG laser emits a pulse of 1064 nm radiation of average power 5 106 W and
duration

2 10-8 s. Find the number of photons emitted in this pulse. ( 1W = 1 J/s)

2. If the n=2 to n=3 transition for a certain particle in 1D box occurs at 4.51013 s-1, find the
frequency of n=5 to n=8.

3. True or false:
2

The function can meet all requirments of a probability density function.

4. Calculate the de Broglie wavelength of an electron moving at 1/137 th the speed of light.
(Neglect relativistic effects).

5. How many degenerate levels are possible in a square 2D box if nx = 2, ny =1 ?

6. is an eigen function of the momentum operator. What is the eigenvalue?

0.5

7. Consider the angular part of an orbital of H atom is (,) (, ) = (4)

Identify the angular nodal plane.

8. Calculate the term symbol of the ground state of the atom.

9. Calculate the work done on a closed system consisting of 50 g of argon, assumed ideal, when
it expands isothermally and reversibly from a volume of 5 L to a volume of 10 L at a temperature
of 298.15 K.

10. The thermal decomposition of a sample of solid KClO3 produces 0.345 mol of CO2 gas at a
constant temperature of 245 oC and a constant barometric pressure of 755 torr. Find the work
done on the atmosphere, assuming that CO2 is an ideal gas. Neglect the volume of the solid
KClO3 and the solid KCl that is produced.

11. Find the amount of heat put into 5 mol of argon (assumed ideal) in expanding reversibly and
isothermally at 298.15 K from a volume of 20 L to 100 L.

12. Find the entropy change of the system and of the surroundings if 3 mol of water freezes
reversibly at 1 atm. The specific enthalpy change of fusion is equal to 79.7 cal g-1 at this
temperature.

13. The half-life of 235U is equal to 7.1 x 108 years. Find the first-order rate constant and the
relaxation time.

14. Some of the damage to the ozone layer of the upper atmosphere might involve the reaction
NO+O3 = NO2 +O2. The reaction is first order in each reactant and the rate constant is equal to
1.3 x 106 L mol-1 s-1 at 298 K. If the initial concentrations of NO and O3 are both equal to
1x10-6 mol L-1, find the concentrations of NO and O3 at time t = 2.00 s.

15. The Arrhenius parameters of a reaction are A=5.01 x 1010 dm3 mol-1 s-1 and Ea=4.18 kJ
-1
mol . At what temperature will the reaction be two times faster than at 298K?

16. Assuming that the ionic character in H-Br bond is 20%. Calculate the fraction of the
contribution of the ionic character to the Valence Bond wave function.
17. The gas-phase reaction 2NO2 + O3 N2O5 + O2 has the rate constant k = 2.0 x 104 dm3 mol1 -1

s at 300 K. What is the order of this reaction?

18. For a bimolecular

k1
k2
A +B AB C
k-1
k k

observed to follow the rate law = ( k1 2)[A][B].

1

reaction, the product formation is

Which of the following is true?

(A) k1>>k2>k-1

(B) k2>>k1> k-1

(C) k-1>>k2

(D) k2>>k-

19. NMR would have been an over expensive & useless technique for just observing spin
transitions for 1H unless
(A) there is concept of coupling
(B) there is concept of chemical shift
(C) there is FT NMR
(D) there is 2-D NMR
20. If the NMR spectrometers magnetic field is varied by +0.00001 T, what magnitude of
change () would be introduced in the resonance frequency of 1H nuclei at 5.87 T?
21. Among the followings, which is/are detectable by NMR? 1H, 13C, 12C, 14N
22. In the IR spectrum of CO there is an intense band at 2144 cm-1. What is the value of the zero
point energy?

23. Among _________ vibrational degrees of freedom for CO2, _______________is not IR
active.
(A) Three, Symmetric stretching.
(B) Four, Symmetric stretching.
(C) Four, antiSymmetric stretching.
(D) Three, antiSymmetric stretching.

24. logk versus 1/T graph was plotted to calculate the activation energy of a reaction using
Arrhenius equation for the effect of temperature on reaction rate. If the slope of the straight line
was found to be -2.55 x 104, what is the activation energy of the reaction?